Ms. Bartek believes all students should experience learning for themselves through inquiry and projects assigned to them.
Her class policies are:
student respect
raising hand
food allowed if neat
one tardy free, then after school detention
no electronic devices
passes signed in agenda book when they want to leave the room
She answers yes to the "may I go get a drink" question.
Safety is shown in the Flinn safety sheet, available online.
In the beginning of class, we had an assembly about Kneecap tests, which I am not all that familiar with.
Next the students set up games for their extra credit assignment that required them to come up with a game that would help students learn the metric system and their conversions. This consisted of some kids using sharpie marker to draw a hopscotch board on the tile floors. After set up, the kids rotated through the games to see which ones they liked playing best and voted on the best one, along with their opinion of if the lesson should be kept for next year. After class, I scrubbed the floors with Ms. Bartek and we drove to a pet store to get meds for her fish.
Reflections:
Alright.... so I scrubbed the floor with a strong alkaline and a sponge today, as well as used my car to run an errand for my teacher. Although a little odd, It went well. I like her philosophy and the students were well behaved and seemed interested in who I was, which was great. I helped collect handouts throughout class and met some students. A girl even complimented my necklace I received from Turkey.
A student Matt seemed a little unengaged throughout class and shy. Another girl Helena stated out loud that she knows she's not cool when a talkative group of girls wouldn't' walk over to her gameboard, but stayed positive throughout her turn to show the game... ah the joys of high school.
Students were cooperative and seemed engaged throughout the class. Teacher is leaving for Mexico this week to further her research on ESL combined in the Bio classroom through TESOL. She stated that biology can also be seen as a "foreign language" which is a great observation, and plans to incorporate what she learned through the ESL studies into her lessons.
**Class Topic: General Science
Grade:mainly 9th
Observed by:
Observations:
Ms. Bartek believes all students should experience learning for themselves through inquiry and projects assigned to them.
Her class policies are:
Safety is shown in the Flinn safety sheet, available online.
In the beginning of class, we had an assembly about Kneecap tests, which I am not all that familiar with.
Next the students set up games for their extra credit assignment that required them to come up with a game that would help students learn the metric system and their conversions. This consisted of some kids using sharpie marker to draw a hopscotch board on the tile floors. After set up, the kids rotated through the games to see which ones they liked playing best and voted on the best one, along with their opinion of if the lesson should be kept for next year. After class, I scrubbed the floors with Ms. Bartek and we drove to a pet store to get meds for her fish.
Reflections:
Alright.... so I scrubbed the floor with a strong alkaline and a sponge today, as well as used my car to run an errand for my teacher. Although a little odd, It went well. I like her philosophy and the students were well behaved and seemed interested in who I was, which was great. I helped collect handouts throughout class and met some students. A girl even complimented my necklace I received from Turkey.A student Matt seemed a little unengaged throughout class and shy. Another girl Helena stated out loud that she knows she's not cool when a talkative group of girls wouldn't' walk over to her gameboard, but stayed positive throughout her turn to show the game... ah the joys of high school.
Students were cooperative and seemed engaged throughout the class. Teacher is leaving for Mexico this week to further her research on ESL combined in the Bio classroom through TESOL. She stated that biology can also be seen as a "foreign language" which is a great observation, and plans to incorporate what she learned through the ESL studies into her lessons.
**Class Topic: General Science
Grade:mainly 9th
Observed by: